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  2. Study: Women are attention whores

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    As if we didn't already know that, but now this study confirms it:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20040699-71.html?tag=cnetRiver

    I want you to focus on Kim Kardashian. Do you think she uses her looks to compete for attention?

    OK. Now I want you to focus on Facebook. Do you think that women post lots of pictures of themselves to compete for the attention of others--men, for example?

    I worry that your answer to both these questions will be "yes." I worry even more, because your views might be confirmed by research from a couple of academics at universities in New York, Texas, and Hawaii.

    For their work, published in a journal called "Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking," makes for troubling reading.

    Apparently, women who tend to judge their own self-worth more on appearance tend to post more pictures of themselves on Facebook. The study's results suggest they do this to compete for, as they say in marketing, eyeballs.

    University of Buffalo researcher Michael A. Stefanone, Ph.D., on his university's own site, put it like this: "It is disappointing to me that in the year 2011 so many young women continue to assert their self worth via their physical appearance--in this case, by posting photos of themselves on Facebook as a form of advertisement."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GQHoLyS5Q

  4. CCNA and CCNP certifications

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    CCNP, CCNA, CCIE are in a different category than CISSP. CISSP is an IT security cert that has more to do with policy and standards than administering anything. I know people that have taken all of them and said that CISSP was the most difficult, but there's also people I know that have CISSP and I wouldn't have guessed them to be all that intelligent. What's difficult for some, may not be for others.

  15. Powdercoat question

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    yeah, i figured, but i was done with those guys. i let them know they fucked up but they never responded or did anything. Imagine that. I appreciate you taking it to Indy for me though, sorry you had to deal with the smell. I'll get you some febreeze until it goes away :D

  17. Dispute ticket with GPS

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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20035920-71.html

    Man uses GPS on Droid to refute speeding ticket

    Sometimes, all of Google's wonderfully intrusive inventions can come in useful.

    I am moved, you see, more than usual by a story in SkatterTech of a man who got a speeding ticket.

    The police accused Sahas Katta of going more than 40 mph in a 25 mph limit, according to the story, which was authored by Katta himself. Katta was a little taken aback. He said he felt sure he wasn't going quite that fast. Fortunately, his Motorola Droid cell phone enjoyed Google MyTracks, according to his account.

    This charming software records your GPS tracks and even lets you watch live stats--which might not be such a good idea when you're driving.

    Still, even though Katta had been meek with the traffic policeman in question, when he looked at his MyTracks afterward, he said he discovered something that was more akin to his own inner senses. The maximum speed recorded had only been 26 mph, according to the story.

    4426610518_3c086ff470_z_610x343.jpg Getting a ticket is never an easy experience.

    (Credit: CC WoodleyWonderworks/Flickr)

    He decided to fight his case in traffic court in Yolo County, Calif., and was nervous giving evidence, he said. Who wouldn't be? Traffic officers are always firm with their facts. But he presented his GPS data. He also, rather cleverly, took the advice of a lawyer and asked the traffic cop whether he had experienced radar gun training recently and when the gun was last calibrated.

    Katta said the judge didn't seem too au fait with GPS technology, but he didn't seem too impressed with the traffic cop's evidence either.

    So, in a victory for common technology, he decided the ticket should not be paid.

    Katta told SkatterTech: "The officer in question was doing his job and did not do anything wrong."

    However, this is not the only case of its kind that seems to be entering the courts. A man in Ohio also attempted to show that his GPS records proved he had not exceeded the 65 mph speed limit, when he was accused of driving at 84 mph.

    In this case, however, an Ohio appeals court ruled that it didn't have enough evidence about how Verizon Wireless' GPS alerts worked in order to throw out the ticket.

    Could it be that California is more welcoming to technology than is Ohio?

  19. Kinect sex game

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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20025804-52.html?tag=mncol;4n

    The demo (a NSFW YouTube video) comes from ThriXXX software, a maker of 3D role-playing sex simulation games, which said in a statement today that "the open-sourcing of device drivers for Kinect have enabled the...device to be used directly from connected PCs operating on Windows 7...The Kinect interface provides another exciting interface option for users of the sex simulation software to control the experience in extraordinary new ways. Controller-free is the next generation of game user interfaces, allowing users to use gestures, spoken commands, or objects to control in-game action that creates a completely new sex game activity and magical experience."

    Picture_6.png This image (not video) offers a peek of what ThriXXX has posted on YouTube.

    (Credit: ThriXXX)

    The demo shows that the Kinect is suitable for fairly well controlled hand gestures and that those gestures can be incorporated into a sex game. Without being too graphic, it's clear that the game makers imagine that players will be using the Kinect to interact directly with women (for now) in the game.

    And Kyle Machulis, who is considered one of the world's experts on sex and digital toys and games, said he's impressed with how quickly the Kinect community has taken the new device and advanced it for adult purposes.

    "The Kinect is obviously a natural technology for this kind of usage, since the 'hands-free' approach means that the user's hands are available for other actions, be it manipulating the game, or themselves--or, in this case, possibly both at the same time," Machulis told CNET. "I'm impressed with the quick development turnaround for getting new controls into their engine like this, especially using resources from the open-source community."

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20024024-52.html#ixzz1EzpMV7Fx

    To date, there are no overtly sexual Kinect games on the market, though the folks who put together Kinect MotionSwinger (pretty NSFW) would like you to believe--for a moment at least--otherwise. But that's nothing more than a joke concept for a Kinect sex game put together with some imagery from Second Life.

    Still, when it comes to finding ways to utilize new technology for, shall we say, lewd purposes, there are few people more qualified thank Kyle (qDot) Machulis, the dean of the underground sex-tech genre known as teledildonics.

    Also Kinect Titty Tracker mentioned in above link :D

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  23. Contractor needed!

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    Contact Kyle at K&G Contracting. 614-260-2116 Fair pricing, excellent work and they get it done FAST! I just had them do a couple foundation walls in a flip house for me. Remember that it's no cheap project to do no matter who you choose.

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